Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-02
THE FIRST SNOW.
HEAVY GALE AND BITTERLY COLD AT
NORFOLK.
Vessels Ashore-Bay Steamer Detained
Death-rhe Cotton Market
Statistics.
rcorre.popdepce Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, December T. 1887.


NoRFoLK, December J. 1887.
The first snow of the season fell
here this morning and the weather is
bitter cold, the mercury being down to
So. The wind is very high and dis
agreeable and the cautionary northeast
storm signals are hosted on the observa-
tory. a heavy gale is prevailing along
the coast and disasters are expected from
that quarter. The incoming bay steamers
report a rough night on the bay last
night. the wind blowing as hard as they
have felt it this season. The steamer
Pamlico and the steamer Newberne, of
the Old Dominion Line, are both ashore
in Croaton sound with several schOoners,
aud it is thought that in Pamlico sound
there are many stranded vessels.
The outbound Washington steamer
could not get further than Old Point last
night on account Of the gale, and as the
storm will he worse tonight it is proba-
bic no steamers except ocean-going ships
will leave port. The wind IS forty-fye
miles an hour on the coast.
A feet OF twelve or fifteen eastern
schooners is moored oil Lambert's
Point awaiting cargoes Of Southwest
Virginia coal.
Fred. DUR, a well-known druggist of
Portsmouth, died this morning from
gastritis after an illness of several weeks.
For the month closing last night the
cotton receipts at this port were 1857
bales, a falling Off on last year OF $1,000
bales, and the previous year of over
10000 bales. The receipts this season
50 far have fallen off nearly 30 600 bales,
which will doubtless be the amount Of
discrepancy at the close of tho season,
and is caused by diversion of the trade
in favor Of Wilmington, n. G. The for
eign shipments have also fallen off near
ly 5000 bales so far this year. Total
shipments since Sc, TENDER lst, foreign
and coastvise, 217, $3.50 bales shipped
same time last year, 24l $50 bales. There
is yot month of the active season to
run.
A draft Of twenty-five men arrived
from Washington for the marine bar
racks yesterday, and Captain William
r. Browne reported for duty at the bar
racks.
The steamer MayAower viii leave on
Saturday for City Point with stores for
the James-Tiver monitor fleet.
There were twenty-five deaths in Ports
mouth during the month Just closed,
which is above the average.
The eastern schooners William Wilson
and A. 7. Coin, loading lumber, were
badly damaged in a collision yesterday
opposite the maynard
Iwonty-six steamships and three barks
cleared from Norfolk Tor foreign ports
during November with cargoes valued at
81, 397 0jG.
Twenty-Five marriages took place in
Norfolk last month, nine in Portsmouth,
and thirteen in the county.
Dir Alfred @. Palmer ard his bride
arrived home yesterday from their we'd
ding trip to New York.
a colony Of forty Gypsies is encamped
in the woods back of Portsmouth.
Rev. Richard Spiller, Of the Queen
Street Baptist church (colored) has
declined the call to the Hampton Baptist
church.
An eigbt-year-old daughter of Mr..
Walter Jordan, Il farmer of Isle Of
Wight county, near Smithiield, fell on
the fire to-day and was fatally burned.
The hands, numbering thirty-fye
laborers, employed on the new dry-dock
in the navy-yard. struck to-day for an adj
vance in wages and knocked Off work.
The contractors are paying the men 81
a day, and they demand $50.
Main-street stores are suffering at the
hands of burglars Just now. Ct.